Monthly Archive for September, 2008

The Lost Skeleton Returns Again

One of my favourite B-grade horror movies, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is getting a sequel called The Lost Skeleton Returns Again. The first one was awesomely bad in a good way if you like that sort of thing, from what I heard one of my friends nearly died laughing too hard watching it.

Trailer for Movie 1:

Some previews of Movie 2:

More LOLcat

More fun from I Can Has Cheezburger…

Epic Fetch

I'm hit!

Fax spammers go fax themselves

Awesome! When a company refuses to stop faxing, Pat decides to play some games with his VoIP number and redirect features…

Read about it here

Judge overrules God in driving case

I don’t think I can adequately explain this. Just best to read it for yourself:

News.com.au
The Fiji Times Online

Said person claims they have been given the God given right to drive and that current car licensing and registration laws breached their freedom of movement and right to privacy.

And I thought Australia was pretty sane…

Little Gordon

Gordon Ramsay seems to be getting quite a few followers now, not least is Little Gordon. I’ll put the videos here so you can figure it out for yourself!

He gets it down pat I think!

Mac OS X and Blu-Ray

Recently I picked up a Blu-Ray burner (the older LG GBW-H10N) on special at about 1/4 the price they originally came out with to tide me over until the media drops in price (now at about $5 US per 4x Memorex BD-R SL) a bit more. A quick connection into my FireWire case + Mac OS X 10.5 and I’m able to burn up to 25 GB a pop (or rather, every $5). The good thing is that Mac OS X supports it without any issues and gets a speedy 8.5 MiB/sec transfer rate for 2x media (under 50 mins for a full disc burn without verification).

Basically if we go by 1 BD-R = 25 GB, about 3 DVD DL discs are needed to store the equivalent amount of data (minus convenience), so it’s starting to look fairly attractive to be able to stash a lot of data onto 1 disc instead of 3 DVD DL’s which cost similarly or more, assuming you are mindful of the eggs-in-one basket issue.

Anyhow I’m keen to see how it pans out, BD-R DL still costs quite a bit, at $20 US a disc it’s just not worth it, similar to how DVD DL discs were when they first came out (and still are a bit on the high side).